Methinks you’re forgetting ONE little detail here:

“I am as outraged and frustrated as you at the lawless and unconstitutional actions of this president. … I believe this decision—considering where we are—is the right one for this team, and the right one for this country,” Boehner said, according to the source. “The good news is that the president’s executive action has been stopped, for now. This matter will continue to be litigated in the courts, where we have our best chance of winning this fight.”

Given Obama’s penchant for doing what he pleases now that he has “flexibility” , I think a lot of folks are thinking “Hey, Obama wouldn’t DARE disobey the courts!”.  Me?  Not so much – I think he’s perfectly willing to do so.  And what’s Boehner and McConnell going to do then?  Not much – they’ve already sworn off impeachment and we’ve just seen them watch Obama steal their Power of the Purse.  Flapping their gums ain’t gonna do anything – Obama has just taken their lunch – and ours.

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Today 257 Congressmen joined 68 Senators and President Obama in stabbing most Americans in the back. To curry favor with their supporters and to benefit themselves, Congress and President Obama are enacting legislation that will make our lives, and the lives of family members and future generations, much more difficult.

If you have a job, this legislation will increase the number of people who can legally compete for your job; that means fewer and lower pay raises and possibly replacement of current employees with people willing to work for lower wages.

If you are looking for a job, this legislation will increase the number of people competing for the job you need to have a shot at your American dream; it will be harder for you to get a job and the pay will be less.

If you have children in public school, this legislation will put more poorly educated, non-English speaking children in our public schools where they will divert teacher attention from your children. And, some of these newcomers will bring contagious, rare, and potentially lethal diseases into the classrooms with your children (they have already and more are coming). 

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CNN Reports:  “The Justice Department has formally closed its investigation of Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson, declining to bring criminal charges for the killing of Michael Brown. In a report released Wednesday, prosecutors said that “Wilson’s actions do not constitute prosecutable violations” of federal civil rights law.”

This ends almost seven months of waiting and wondering what the Justice Department would do, what they might trump up.  Hopefully this finally ends Officer Wilson’s ordeal, the Missouri Grand Jury declined to prosecute months ago as every credible witness and the evidence supported Officer Wilson’s description of the sad event.

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I still can’t believe it’s (not) ‘Not Weed’

Jordan Meier was traveling with three passengers around 9 PM when a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office deputy pulled over his 2002 Chevrolet Monte Carlo on a Lincoln street for a traffic violation, according to a police report.

Meier was subsequently “placed into custody for DUI,” investigators noted.

During a post-arrest inventory search of Meier’s vehicle, cops located a 16-ounce plastic container (which once held Land O’Lakes sour cream) under the front passenger seat.

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Telegraph Editorial: H/T Kevin Bloom – c/o Facebook

House Bill 636 would change the state’s civil forfeiture law to require a person to be convicted before the state could initiate forfeiture proceedings against a suspect. That strikes us as reasonable.

In fact, allowing law enforcement to seize property without a criminal conviction – or even a criminal charge – is an affront to the constitutional principle that people are innocent until proven guilty.

And yet that’s the law, and there are several other problems with it:

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Someone should ask New Hampshire congresswoman Ann Kuster if she agrees with the tactics of her Democrat colleague,  Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona.  Rep. Grijalva sent a letter to 7 Universities in what can only be called an act of Climate McCarthyism.

The letter demands detailed financial information so that Rep Grijalva can examine it.  He would like to explain away unfavorable research results as the product of funding-bias.

“I write today because of concerns raised in a recent New York Times report,” Grijalva said in the letters, “and documents I have received that highlight potential conflicts of interest and failure to disclose corporate funding sources in academic climate research.”

Irony alert?

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You know what is really REALLY funny about this?  Remember when the left, including all those New Hampshire Democrats (who love them some Clinton) were crying in 2010 (all the time actually) about money coming in from outside the country?  You remember that?  During all of that “outrage” Hillary Clinton and the Clinton foundation were accepting millions in donations from not just outside the country but other countries governments–AND…because Hillary Clinton was using private email we may never be able to tell if or how often she solicited those donations while fundraising as the Secretary of State.

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Welcome to the Real World.

This famous cinematic quote suits the moment as the Concord Monitor, the pragmatic-socialist New Hampshire “paper-of-record,” finds itself on the receiving end of progressive-bureaucrat obfuscation.

In the movie, Morpheus has pulled the wool of the Matrix from Neo’s eyes.  The modern world as he knows it does not exist.  In reality it is a barren waste.  He is nothing more than a battery powering a machine.  This is an apt metaphor for the Monitor which toes the pragmatic-socialist line with enthusiasm, and will continue to do so, but for this sliver in time it has made a reasonable request of Democrat Governor Hassan and her administration has chosen to treat them like the rest of the peasants.

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“The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”   —Justice Hugo Black

Vassals of the Feifdoms…oh how they love to rule and oh how we love to let them! Periodically, we hear the din of those who gleefully point out that New Hampshire is not very homogenous. People move here from Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Rhode Island to  flee the thumb of state and local governments, frequently viewed as rife with the corruption of ineffectual politics. Then…they run for office. The problem is they bring with them an “ala carte” cherry-picking of the crappy politics from which they escaped…here to the Granite State.

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Let’s meet in the LOBBY of the Legislative Office Building at 9:00 am on Thursday, March 5th.

NH Commissioner of Education Virginia Barry is using Technical Advisories to intimidate parents. Barry believes her directives SUPERSEDE a parent’s fundamental RIGHT to direct the education of his child!!!

House Education Committee votes on House Bill 603, protecting a parent’s right to REFUSE to allow their child take the Smarter Balanced Assessments without penalty, at 9:45 am March 5, 2015 in the Legislative Office Building, Room 207.

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There is a national program that identifies duplicate names of registered voters from among states that belong to it. It is called the Interstate Crosscheck Program run by the Secretary of State of Kansas.

Here are two sites that explain how it works. The first is a slide presentation of the Program. The second is a sample copy of the recent contract with Pennsylvania.

The program, run by state officials, combines voter lists from member states and locates matches of voters with similar information such as first name, middle initial, last name, birth date, and in states that keep such records, the last four digits of the person’s Social Security number.

The site does nothing more that that. It works with the data supplied by the member state and cooperating employees.

The Interstate Crosscheck Program does not investigate, or prosecute voters who come up as matching a voter in another state. That is left up to the state to do.

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